Among his many other books on constitutional law, 'Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime' received eight national book awards.

His most recent work, 'Sex and the Constitution' (2017) deals with the history sex, religion, law and constitutional law.

He is one of the nation's leading scholars on the First Amendment and he is the author of many books on constitutional law. He has served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School and as provost of the University of Chicago. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. For that reason, academic freedom is a central part of the mission of colleges and universities, and that means those institutions should fully respect the rights of students, faculty members and invited speakers to express their views regardless of the extent to which they may be offensive, problematic or disturbing to others.' To find out whether in fact what we believe to be true, really is true. Stone on Monday, April 2 for 'Free Speech on Campus: A Challenge of our Times.' Stone, who authored the University of Chicago's statement of principles on free expression, will discuss the appropriate limits on free speech in institutions of higher learning.įrom a radio interview on the 1A WAMU 88.5, on April 25, 2017, Stone said, ' The central mission of a college and university is to provide a forum for ideas to be expressed, to be debated, to be discussed in order to both expand knowledge, to create new ideas and to test what we think is true. In recent years, American colleges and universities have suffered through often bitter conflicts over the principle of free expression.

Perilous Times by Geoffrey R. Stone